| author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net> |
| Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:07:52 +0200 | |
| branch | stable |
| changeset 50347 | 2bb2a1ff4d8f |
| parent 44621 | c5653cf2811d |
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This will be moderately complicated, as we'll need to synthesize phony |
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changeset entries to explode the octopus into "revisions" that only |
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have two parents each. For today, we can probably just do something like |
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where XX is a counter (so we could have as many as 255 parents in a |
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git commit - more than I think we'd ever see.) That means that we can |
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install some check in this extension to disallow checking out or |
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otherwise interacting with the `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa` revisions. |
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Interface Creation |
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We at least need an interface definition for `changelog` in core that |
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this extension can satisfy, and again for `basicstore`. |
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Reason About Locking |
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We should spend some time thinking hard about locking, especially on |
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.git/index etc. We're probably adequately locking the _git_ |
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repository, but may not have enough locking correctness in places |
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where hg does locking that git isn't aware of (notably the working |
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copy, which I believe Git does not lock.) |